Deep valley ground down by the Housatonic, stony till up on the hills. Good soil compacts too — often deeper than you'd look.
Serving New Milford and the Housatonic valley · Fairfield, New Haven & Litchfield counties
We pull thousands of soil plugs to open compacted clay and rocky loam, so air, water and nutrients reach the root zone.
Turf-Type tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass blend, A-List blue-tag varieties, dropped straight into the aeration holes.
Cooler air and fall moisture give new seed its best window to establish before winter and root deeply going into the cold.
Aeration reaches 2 to 3 inches, so irrigation heads and lines, low-voltage wiring and invisible fences need marking first. Most customers mark their own — we can do it for a fee if you'd rather.
Not sure whether your lawn needs it this fall? We'll walk the property and give you a straight answer — including if the timing's wrong.
Get a QuoteNew Milford spreads along the Housatonic valley and covers a lot of ground — more land area than almost any town in the state. Down on the valley floor the soil is deep alluvial ground that generations farmed, and it's some of the better growing soil we work on. Up on the sides of the valley and out on the higher ground it turns to the usual Litchfield County glacial till: stony, tight, and shallow over rock in places.
The valley-floor lawns are the ones people assume don't need aeration, and they're often the ones that need it most. Deep soil that's been worked, driven on and mown for decades compacts thoroughly, and because the profile is deep the tight layer can sit well below where anyone would think to look. A lawn on good ground that still thins in July is usually telling you the roots stop somewhere. Core aeration opens the way down; overseeding into the holes builds the density on top. On the higher, stonier lots the story is the familiar one — shallow soil, less margin, and more to gain from every inch we open.
Based in Sandy Hook, we service the towns around us every day. Your lawn is on a route we already run.
Connecticut licence PMCS-065378. The same crew can feed your lawn, manage weeds and treat for ticks.
We don't offer dethatching or liquid aeration, because core aeration does the job properly. If your lawn needs something else, we'll say so.
Often yes. Good soil compacts too, and on a deep profile the tight layer can be lower down where it's less obvious. If the lawn thins in summer despite decent ground, that's usually what's happening.
Early September through mid-October. On the higher ground north and west of the valley, aim earlier — soil cools sooner up there.
You do — or we can, for a fee. Aeration reaches two to three inches, so anything shallow needs marking before we start.
Fall is the window, and it's short. Tell us about your property and we'll build the plan around it.